Bob,
Thats good to know. That's an angle we hadn't considered testing,
however if the user has identified a preference, I think that it would
be good that Google honors that preference rather than allowing me(a 3rd
party as far as Google is concerned) to overwrite those preferences by
my well meaning interference. I realize there are some simplistic
assumptions in that statement, but I hope that any preferences set by
the user would lead them to legitimate access points even if those
access points happen not to be our subscriptions.
Bob Duncan wrote:
At 03:25 PM 7/15/2009, John Wynstra wrote:
We have tested routing off-campus users through our local proxy (WAM)
when they link to Google Scholar from our library website . Not
recommending it, just saying it works since the proxy is in the
correct IP range. It has the benefit of leaving folks authenticated
to the documents they will eventually click to--assuming you are using
a rewrite proxy. It doesn't actually set preferences, so if users
happen to go directly to Google Scholar they may be confused by the
missing openURL links.
I was going to mention this as well, but I was home this morning and did
some experimenting, and found that if I had already set a Library Links
preference in Scholar, that my proxied URL strategy was foiled. To
test...I accessed Scholar directly, set Stanford in Scholar Prefs,
closed the browser, then accessed Scholar using a proxied URL. Instead
of my library's OpenURL links, I still saw just Stanford's. I opened a
different browser, accessed Scholar using the proxied URL, and saw
Lafayette's OpenURL links.
Seems like as long as the browser has stated a conscious preference from
within Scholar Preferences, IP address is ignored for purposes of
offering OpenURL links. (Even from on-campus -- Scholar sets a
preference based on IP address, but if you delete your institution from
the prefs, it won't come back until you add it back or delete the
Scholar cookie.)
Bob Duncan
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Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
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John Wynstra
Library Information Systems Specialist
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
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wyns...@uni.edu
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